TY - JOUR

T1 - Fifty-five years of Russian radio-echo sounding investigations in Antarctica

AU - Popov, S.

N1 - Funding Information: The author thanks his colleagues from PMGE team (Yu.B. Chernoglazov, V.M. Kirillov, A.V. Kiselev, V.N. Masolov, A.M. Popkov, A.I. Savelov, A.N. Sheremet'ev and O.B. Soboleva), AARI and Russian Antarctic Expedition (V.V. Kharitonov, V.V. Lukin, V.L. Mart'yanov, A.L. Novikov, S.P. Polyakov and S.S. Pryakhin) and St. Petersburg State University (S.D. Grigoreva, A.A. Sukhanova) with whom he worked in the field and processed RES and GPR data; also tractor drivers who provided the scientific investigations in the logistic and scientific traverses ‘Mirny–Vostok’ and ‘Progress–Vostok’, also the wintering and summaring team of Vostok, Progress and Mirny stations. The author also thanks Achille Zirizzotti and Stefano Urbini from INGV for RES and GPR equipment and also Dr. L. Eberlein, L. Schröder and A. Richter, his colleagues from TUD for help in the field. The author thanks Martin Siegert and three anonymous reviewers for numerous corrections and suggestions for improving English that allowed him to significantly improve the manuscript. This study was funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR) according to the research project No 17-55-12003 NNIO.

PY - 2020/4/1

Y1 - 2020/4/1

N2 - Russian (former Soviet) systematic studies of Antarctica by radio-echo sounding (RES) and ground-penetrating radar technique (GPR) were commenced in 1964. Since that time airborne RES surveys have covered about 5.5 × 106 km2 of the icy continent discovering remarkable geographic objects such as Subglacial Gamburtsev Mountains, and allowed studies of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Amery Ice Shelf and Lambert Glacier. Ground-based investigations during the 1990s and 2000s revealed the structure of the Lake Vostok area and surveyed along the Mirny to Vostok and Progress to Vostok traverse routes. GPR studies during the 2010s were to select the site for a new snow-runway at Mirny Station, with the resumption of the aviation after a 25 year hiatus.

AB - Russian (former Soviet) systematic studies of Antarctica by radio-echo sounding (RES) and ground-penetrating radar technique (GPR) were commenced in 1964. Since that time airborne RES surveys have covered about 5.5 × 106 km2 of the icy continent discovering remarkable geographic objects such as Subglacial Gamburtsev Mountains, and allowed studies of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Amery Ice Shelf and Lambert Glacier. Ground-based investigations during the 1990s and 2000s revealed the structure of the Lake Vostok area and surveyed along the Mirny to Vostok and Progress to Vostok traverse routes. GPR studies during the 2010s were to select the site for a new snow-runway at Mirny Station, with the resumption of the aviation after a 25 year hiatus.

KW - Airborne electromagnetic soundings

KW - Antarctic glaciology

KW - crevasses

KW - ground-penetrating radar

KW - ice thickness measurements

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85082129960&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/aog.2020.4

DO - 10.1017/aog.2020.4

M3 - Article

VL - 61

SP - 14

EP - 24

JO - Annals of Glaciology

JF - Annals of Glaciology

SN - 0260-3055

IS - 81

ER -